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API way to get opening/closing sounds from doors and trapdoors

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Among the numerous kinds of doors that Minecraft has accumulated over the years, many of them have unique sounds when opening or closing them. Currently there is no way to get these sounds via the API. If you wish to emulate opening or closing a door through code, the sounds aren't played automatically, but you also have no way of knowing which sound to play in a robust and future-proof way.

Describe the solution you'd like.

A way to access the sounds given a Door or TrapDoor kind of object representing the specific kind of door.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Hard-coding everything and crying when Mojang adds yet another wood type in the next update.

Other

Vanilla has a BlockSetType for this, which is stored in a field of a DoorBlock. I'd love for an equivalent to be exposed. I tried implementing this myself but failed because the Material system is so incompatible with vanilla's system. I'm hoping maybe it's more possible now with BlockType and stuff.

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Research direction

Start by examining how Door, TrapDoor, BlockType, and the Material system represent specific block kinds, then compare that with vanilla's BlockSetType and the DoorBlock field mentioned in the issue. Done means the API can retrieve the appropriate opening and closing sounds for each door or trapdoor kind without hard-coding every wood type.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, game-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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